Do you have paint eaters/slurpers/drinkers in your special education classroom? I do. I once went an entire semester of twice weekly art projects without painting. We colored, cut, glued and dot markered until the cows came home, but I couldn’t
Token boards are a staple in many special education classrooms. Token economies are a best practice and appeal to students with autism because they are a physical and visual representation of positive reinforcement. There are many ways to put together
Part of my job is to take each of my four special education classes into the community each week. That’s over 1000 trips over these last 5 years. This year, I had someone criticize the fact that we go to
Many students with autism have sequencing goals. Sequencing is one of those oh so important basic concepts that doesn’t always come easily. Many of them also have scissor goals. And since I LOVE tackling more than one goal at a
I recently created a set of alphabet file folders to add to my ever growing collection and I think my students are going to love them! File folder tasks and autism classrooms are like two peas in a pod. I